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Is my CPU too slow??

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basara318

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hi
well i have a celeron 566 with 160mb RAM and recently got a GF2 to replace my fried voodoo5. somehow it seems UT runs slower than it is on my V5, milkdrop seems to run faster tho but doesnt break 30 FPS. other games like NOFL has an ok framerate around 20 fps or so. is that normal? would i benefit from a faster CPU or something is wrong? also the max FSB on my abit BH6 is 133mhz and highest multiplier is 8X. would i be able to run a P3 800 at 133mhz?
 
Well UT always runs faster on Voodoo cards than on Nvidia ones, it just likes them more. For everything else I think your CPU will be a bottleneck, if it is particularly CPU intensive. If you can afford it, you can't go wrong with upgrading your CPU. If your highest multiplier is 8 and your FSB is 133 then you can run at 1.06GHz.
 
getting away from the crippled celery and its 66mhz bus will garner you better results...I don't think the celery was ever truly intended to be the gaming computer. It was the surfer / word proc computer, and some basic multimedia apps.

I have also seen the voodoo5 perform better then the geforce 2 in several games...what res are you running at?

sell the celery 533 for aout 40 bucks and recoup some money and put towards a p3 800 for 131 before sh...I think you will be set for quite awhile. That should swith the bottleneck back to the vid card most likely....

 
Yes, the 66mhz bus speed of the Celeron I means a big performance hit. Getting a 100 and o/c it or 133mhz intel P3 will greatly improve your PC in all applications.
 
Before you go out and buy a new CPU why don't you try to OC your current CPU first. 533 and 566 Celerons will usually hit 800 and 850 MHz rather easily. This will be like free speed to you since you do not have to spend any money. Also, you do not have to worry about the CPU multiplier controls on your BH6. As long as you have the latest BIOS from Abit the CPUs will be detected automatically and they are multiplier locked anyway.
 
Oc the 566/66 to 850/100. If that's possible, it should hold you over until P3 chips are cheaper. Or until Amd's newer offerings are cheaper w/cever comes first.
 
Your CPU is far too slow for games such as UT, Dues Ex and NOLF. You should move away from a Celeron and get a P3/P4/Duron/TBird.
 
thats not true. a celeron 400, v3 system runs all of those fine (NOLF) is a little slow, but it is playable. i would suggest overclocking the system as much as possible, and then save until you can get a higher performance platform.
--jacob
 
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